Aw, thank you!
Oh I'm surprised you didn't like your winner, I think your winner icon was amazing. I think I was the one to nominate it - I'm sorry that I nominated something you didn't want to win, that's definitely not what I wanted. I just really don't think that it's a 'mediocre' icon in any way, I think coloring as deep and vibrant as that is very difficult to make and makes the icon stand out in a big voting post. But I totally get that it's disheartening if the audience doesn't like our personal favorites, it happens to me a lot with individual sets, but that only makes me want to practise the things I want to be liked for even more - but then again, like you say, everyone has different preferences and that's not really something that we can affect.

I for one had a lot of trouble picking just 5 of your icons to the voting and even more trouble voting for just 10, so if your favorites didn't make it there it doesn't mean that people didn't like them! :>